Abstract: A medical control device includes: a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image generated by an image sensor capturing a subject image introduced by an endoscope; a luminance calculation unit configured to calculate a luminance level of the subject image included in the captured image; and a dimming controller configured to control a light amount of irradiation light onto a subject and an electronic shutter of the image sensor based on the luminance level, and execute first dimming control of narrowing the electronic shutter before reducing the light amount as the luminance level increases.

Abstract: Provided is a control device that electrically controls a medical observation apparatus configured to capture an image of an observation target and includes a voice recognition section, a recognized-information processing section, a switch input reception section, and a control section. The voice recognition section recognizes a voice inputted from outside. Based on a result of recognition by the voice recognition section, the recognized-information processing section determines processing to be executed by the medical observation apparatus. The switch input reception section receives an input of an operation signal based on an operation performed on a switch.

Abstract: A medical imaging device includes: a plurality of image sensors each configured to capture a subject image to output a pixel signal; and a signal integration unit configured to convert a plurality of the pixel signals output from the plurality of image sensors into pixel signals corresponding to a specific transmission standard.

Abstract: A medical display controlling apparatus and a display controlling method capable of enhancing convenience of medical providers includes generating a three-dimensional model of an observed object based on a right-eye medical captured image and a left-eye medical captured image taken by an imaging device configured to image the observed object; and causing a display screen to display a combination of the three-dimensional model with a right-eye special light observation image and a left-eye special light observation image, or a combination of the three-dimensional model with biological information acquired from an external biological information acquiring apparatus.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus for endoscope includes: a coupler; an exterior casing connected to the coupler and extending along a first axis crossing an optical axis of an endoscope, the exterior casing having outer dimensions in a direction along the first axis greater than outer dimensions in a direction along the optical axis of the endoscope; an optical system; and an imaging unit. The exterior casing includes a first exterior part, a second exterior part, and a connector part. The optical system and the imaging unit are housed, in the exterior casing, side by side on the optical axis of the endoscope such that light of an image of a subject guided by the optical system is captured by the imaging unit.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes a first internal module 61 that executes hardware processing, and second internal modules that execute software processing. The first internal module outputs an image signal, division position information indicating division positions, at which a frame of the image signal is divided by a predetermined amount of data, and a timing signal, to the second internal modules, and generates, based on the image signal that has been subjected to the software processing and input from the second internal modules, a video signal for display. Based on the timing signal and the division position information, the second internal modules sequentially execute image processing by the software processing on the image signal per the predetermined amount of data, and sequentially output the image signal per the predetermined amount of data that has been subjected to the image processing, to the first internal module.

Abstract: A learning device 3 includes: a training image acquisition unit 321 that acquires training images in which a first training image acquired by capturing light from a subject irradiated with light in a first wavelength band and a second training image acquired by capturing light from the subject irradiated with light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band are paired; a singular area specification unit 322 that specifies a singular area in the second training image; a first feature data extraction unit 323 that extracts feature data of a singular-corresponding area at a pixel position corresponding to the singular area in the first training image; and a singular-corresponding area learning unit 324 that generates a learning model by performing machine learning on the singular-corresponding area based on the feature data.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure relates to an observation system including a control device that controls irradiation light with which different irradiation environments are irradiated, in which the control device includes a control unit that controls a light source device that generates the irradiation light, and an acquisition unit that acquires irradiation environment information regarding an irradiation environment of the irradiation light, and the control unit causes a display unit to display a first software key in a case where the irradiation environment information acquired by the acquisition unit includes an open field, and causes the display unit to display a second software key in a case where the irradiation environment information does not include an open field, a function corresponding to predetermined light emission is disabled in the first software key, and the function corresponding to the predetermined light emission is enabled in the second software key.

Abstract: A medical control device includes: a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image generated by an image sensor capturing a subject image introduced by an endoscope; a luminance calculation unit configured to calculate a luminance level of the subject image included in the captured image; and a dimming controller configured to control a light amount of irradiation light onto a subject and an electronic shutter of the image sensor based on the luminance level, and execute first dimming control of narrowing the electronic shutter before reducing the light amount as the luminance level increases.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to cause, based on a detection result of at least one trocar into which a medical instrument is inserted, the at least one trocar being configured to detect a first state and a second state, the first state and the second state indicating an insertion state of the medical instrument into a subject, a display device to display at least one of a first image generated by capturing an image of an observation object inside the subject and a second image of the observation object inside the subject, the second image being previously acquired.

Abstract: A light source device includes a first light source, a second light source, and a light source control unit. The first light source emits laser light. The second light source emits light. The light source control unit controls the operations of the first and second light sources. The light source control unit executes each of first switching control and second switching control on laser light which is applied to a subject after emitted from the first light source based on a time reference in accordance with a class specified by a laser standard indicating a safety standard for laser products. In the first switching control, a lighting state is switched from the first light source to the second light source. In the second switching control, the lighting state is switched from the second light source to the first light source.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus for endoscope includes: a coupler; an exterior casing connected to the coupler and extending along a first axis crossing an optical axis of an endoscope, the exterior casing having outer dimensions in a direction along the first axis greater than outer dimensions in a direction along the optical axis of the endoscope; an optical system; and an imaging unit. The exterior casing includes a first exterior part, a second exterior part, and a connector part. The optical system and the imaging unit are housed, in the exterior casing, side by side on the optical axis of the endoscope such that light of an image of a subject guided by the optical system is captured by the imaging unit.

Abstract: A medical image processing device includes: a plurality of storage units each configured to store a value related to an image processing parameter; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing based on the image processing parameter determined by selecting at least one of the plurality of storage units according to a timing at which types of a plurality of types of acquired medical images are switched.

Abstract: A medical control device includes: a dimming control unit configured to control an operation of a light source device configured to emit first light and second light, and adjust light amounts of the first and the second light; and an imaging control unit configured to control an operation of an imaging device including at least one imaging element, irradiate an observation target with the first light to capture return light of the first light via the observation target to generate a first captured image, and irradiate the observation target with the second light to capture return light of the second light via the observation target to generate a second captured image. The imaging control unit is configured to execute changing an exposure period of the imaging element, and discarding image information generated by the imaging element according to light reception in a partial period of the exposure period.

Abstract: A camera head for an endoscope includes a casing that forms exterior, and an imaging unit that is housed in the casing and images a subject image. The casing includes a metal exterior unit that forms at least a part of the exterior and is formed by hydroforming.

Abstract: A medical observation system according to the present invention includes: an observation optical system configured to guide an observation light from a subject; an imaging unit configured to receive an observation light from the observation optical system and generate an image signal; and an image processing unit configured to apply signal processing to the image signal generated by the imaging unit, wherein the image processing unit includes a filter detection unit configured to detect, based on a signal value of a color which includes a wavelength band of a specific light in a preset wavelength band of the image signal, whether or not an observation-side filter for cutting the specific light is disposed on an optical path of the observation light.

Abstract: A medical control device according to the present disclosure includes an image processing section adapted to generate a captured image on the basis of an electric signal generated by an imaging device that captures an image of a subject, and a light source control information generation section adapted to generate control information for controlling a light quantity distribution of illumination light, according to a brightness distribution of the captured image.

Abstract: Provided are a mount member and an endoscope device by which length of cleaning time can be shortened. A mount member 9 includes a first member 91; a second member 92; and a restriction member 93 that restricts the second member 92 from moving in the direction of a first axis L1, by clamping the second member 92 in a manner allowing rotation, through the first member 91, and that has at least one first cutout cut out such as to expose, to the exterior, a part of a contact section 9211 of the second member 92 clamped through the first member 91.

Abstract: A medical control apparatus includes a circuitry configured to: generate an irradiation image represented by illuminating-light irradiation, based on a brightness distribution of a captured image captured by an imaging device; and control generation of a projection image and projection of the projection image onto a subject by an image projector provided in an optical member based on the irradiation image and a rotation angle for rotation of the optical member rotatably coupled to the imaging device about a longitudinal axis of the optical member relative to the imaging device.

Abstract: A technology advantageous for observing an observation target in a state where the observation target is irradiated with light emitted under an appropriate temperature condition in a light source device is provided. A control device includes a temperature information acquisition unit that acquires light source temperature information that is information regarding a temperature of a light source device that emits light with which biological tissues are to be irradiated, and a control unit that controls a notification on the basis of the light source temperature information.